Impacto tecnológico

2. NDTV India’s senior Executive Editor Ravish KuApr – the ‘Journalist of the year’

award.

Pak radio journalist Misha Euceph selected for prestigious WHCA scholarship

Pakistani Misha Eucepha radio journalist in the US is among 18 budding journalists selected for the prestigious annual scholarship of the White House Correspondents Association.

• Misha from Rawalpindi is the beneficiary of a USD 5,000 grant through the WHCA to help finance a post-graduate degree for a student.

• The scholarship would be presented by US President and the First Lady Michelle Obama.

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Acquires EQUIS Accreditation Award: EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS)

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Accreditation by: EFMD

Headquarter: Brussels, Belgium

With EQUIS accreditation, IIM Calcutta becomes thefirst Indian business school to achieve the ‘Triple Crown’ in accreditation

• Only 5 business schools in Asia and 73 business schools around the world are currently ‘Triple Accredited’

IIM-Calcutta officials have been coordinating with the rating agencies for over a year now in order to get the certifications

Politician NK Singh gets Japan’s prestigious national Award

Politician NK Singh will be awarded with Japan’s Second Highest national award for his contribution towards Indo-Japan economic relations over 10 years more.

• He was formerly served as a Bureaucrat

The Award: ‘The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star’

Conferred by: Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Venue: Imperial Palace in Tokyo

Date: on May 10

Delegates: Audience with Emperor Akihito who is the reigning Emperor of Japan

Japan government announced the award and expressed that award was conferred for the honour in recognition of the “Catalytic role”played by him in the maintenance of Indo-Japanese

economic relations for the years.

Sudarsan Pattnaik wins gold in sand art contest in Russia

Odisha hailed eminent sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won gold medal in an International Sand Art Championship held at Russia.

• Pattnaik has participated in the ninth Moscow Sand Sculpture Championship “The magical world of sand- 2016 and where he produced the sand art of 15 feet high Mahatma Gandhi sculpture for non-violence and peace in the sand art contest.

• In the competition 20 sculptors from across the globe took part in the contest.

Pakistan Based Swat Activist Tabassum Adnan wins 2016 Nelson Mandela Award About Nelson Mandela Graça Machel Innovation Award

Established: 2004

Constituted: CIVICUS World Assembly in Gaborone, Botswana

Purpose: Innovative ideas emerging from organisations or groups of organisations participating in the CIVICUS World Assembly

Award: Funding value of US 5,000 dollars

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• Pakistani activist Tabassum Adnan, who fights for women’s rights, has won the Nelson Mandela – Graça Machel Innovation Award 2016 in the individual activist category.

• Venue: Colombia About Tabassum Adnan

• Hails from Swat Valley, Pakistan

• Founder of NGO, Khwendo Jirga – the first women-only ‘Jirga’ in Pakistan

• Married at age 13, Adnan suffered 20 years of physical and mental abuse before she divorced her husband

• To address issues of women’s right, including honour killings and acid attacks

• Under Jirga, she dealt issues related to women’s security and their voting rights

• Adnan was awarded the International Women of Courage award in the US

Indira Nooyi, Satya Nadella, Bhavesh Patel among highest paid Chief Executive Officers in world

Three Indian born persons are among 100 highest paid CEOs globally 1. PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi – 8^th

2. LyondellBasell’s Bhavesh Patel – 6^th 3. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella – 26^th Rankings:

1. Oracle Coporation CEO’s Mark V Hurd and Safra A Catz –$53.2 millio 2. Robert A Iger of Walt Disney – $43.5 million

3. David Cote of Honeywell International – $33.1 million 4. Jeffrey R Immelt of General Electric – $26.4 million

5. Rupert Murdoch of Twenty-First Century Fox – $22.2 million 6. James P Gorman of Morgan Stanley – $22 million

Announced by: Equilar Study

The Annual proxy statements was filed before April 1st and focus on CEO pay trends for 2015

• Eight CEOs are women

• Highest paid female Catz tied with Hurd is $53.2 million

Giant duck-billed dinosaur fossil in China sets world record

A fossilised skeleton of a hadrosaur also called duck-billed dinosaur has been recognized byGuinness World Records as the largest hadrosaurid skeleton on displayin Shandong province of China.

• The Zhuchengosaurusmaximus skeleton measures with1 meters high and 16.6 meters long while the average height and body length of hadrosaurs are four-five meters and six-nine meters.

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PM Modi confers awards to civil servants on 10th Civil Services Day

Prime Minister accorded awards to Civil Servants for Excel in Implementation of Programmes and Schemes made by Government

No. of Districts were awarded: 10

Under the four Priority Programmes

1. Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna – Opening Zero Balance Accounts 2. Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) – Clean India Programme

3. Swachh Vidyalaya – ‘Clean India: Clean Schools’

4. Soil Health Card Scheme – To Farmers for health or quality of a soil

* First time a new category of Excellence in implementing a Priority Programme has been awarded

Features:

Acknowledge, recognize and reward the extraordinary and innovative work done by officers of the Central and State Governments for the welfare of the Indian Citizens

Sl No Programme Received by On Behalf of

1 Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan

Yojana LDM of Allahabad bank of

India Raj Kishore Prasad 24 North Paraganas LDM of Union bank of India

Surendra Chandra Das Behalf of Navgaon, Assam LDM of Punjab National

Bank Pramod Narayan Chandigarh 2 Swachh Bharat Mission

(Gramin) Dr Savita Anand, Principal Resident Commissioner of

3 Swachh Vidyalaya Anantpur district in Andhra Pradesh

Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir

Dadar & Nagar Haveli 4 Soil Health Card Scheme

category

J Geetha Reddy appointed as PAC Chairperson of Telangana

J Geeta Reddy, one of the oldest Congress MLAs, has been appointed as the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.This is the first time that a woman legislator has been appointed for this coveted post.

• She will succeed the late previous chairman and Congress MLA Ramreddy Venkat Reddy.